ACTBAC plans Confederate Memorial Day event in Graham

The service is 6–8 p.m. Thursday, May 10, at 212 W. Elm St., Graham, at the Veterans Wall in front of the courthouse.

“We will honor the men in grey from Alamance county that can no longer speak,” ACTBAC wrote on its Facebook page. “We will speak for them and continue to honor or forefathers so many years later.”

The memorial lists 1,100 names of soldiers who fought and died during the battles “for Southern Independence,” ACTBAC wrote.

“Imagine if we lost 1100 fathers and sons in our glorious county in today’s time in a short period of time with the much larger population. No one today can grasp the heartbreak, sorrow our country and state felt between 1861-1865,” ACTBAC wrote.

ACTBAC has the proper permitting for the event, Graham City Manager Frankie Maness said.

“The city asks that safety and civility be the foremost consideration of all interested parties,” Maness said.